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When the electric utility industry in Texas was deregulated, my company ran focus groups for existing and potential customers.  The participants represented a cross section of the adult public.  The objective was to determine what they wanted in electric services and what they would be willing to pay for them.    The groups were facilitated by an independent facilitator who did not have a dog in the hunt, which is Texan for saying that he did not have a vested interest in the outcome.  NARP is not a bias free organization.  It is a rail advocacy group.  Its mission is to promote passenger rail irrespective of whether it is the best solution.  As the president of TXARP put it, our mission is trains and more trains everywhere.Ideally the U.S. should develop a national transportation framework.  The objective should be to optimize the modes of transport, i.e. use what works best for the users in a given location.  Frameworks are less specific than policies and, therefore, have a better chance of working.  If the U.S. had a national transportation framework that required each mode of transport to stand on its own, without any subsidies, passenger rail probably would be confined to high density corridors.  Not to worry!  This country is too big, too diverse, and too contentious to adopt a rational national transportation framework.  There are too many people who have a vested interest in the status quo or their favorite mode of transport.
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